GREEN LANTERN CORPS #14

Can you tell what the Guardian's are playing at? Is it a scheme involving a baying cat? Or maybe it's something absurd? Like cleaning up a turd. That's recently been dumped on a preying mat. No? OK then. Maybe these chaps might know. Writer: Peter J. Tomasi; Artist: Fernando Pasarin; and Publisher: DC Comics in December 2012.

So what’s the STORY
morning glory?

Honest to Oa; you've got to feel sorry for Guy Gardner in
this adventure entitled 'Nothing Man'! Well, if it wasn't bad enough that his
fellow Green Lanterns get slaughtered by the Third Army whilst on a mission in deep outer-space.
Worst still, he isn't able to protect his family from the killer known as 'Xar',
who's presently hot on there heals.

Granted,
the Justice League does help Guy out with his 'family dilemma'. Moreover,
Kilowog and Salaak also have a sneaking suspicion to what is really going
on behind the scenes too.

Nonetheless,
if truth be told, Guy gets played like a harmonica from hell in this yarn; and is
forced by the Guardians of the Universe to throw in the towel because of
his previous actions.

Ouch!
Isn't that troubling news, dear reader? Troubling -- just like John Steward when he bumps
into Fatality whilst trailing a fragment of Mogo in the beyond.

To be continued...

What is the most
memorable SENTENCE OR CONVERSATION spoken in this issue?

Apart from the Kilowog and Salaak scene -- which I'll come
to later -- there was only one other piece of dialogue that stood out from the
crowd all in all. It was when Guy said to the Guardians...

One of the best scenes in this issue; was the one where
Kilowog and Salaak began to realize that something strange is going on with the
Green Lantern Corps. For me, personally, I liked the fact that it wasn't one of
the 'Earth GL's' who stumbled onto this conclusion. Inadvertently making this
segment more surprising and intriguing to follow.

What was the WORST
thing about this issue?

Overall I really did like the majority of this issue. It
was nice to read. Poignant in places. And intriguing in others too.

But at I touch, I'd say that I wasn't too keen on the
structure of this tale. Meandering back and forth from Guy's part of the story,
to John's, to Salaak's, to the Guardians, to whomever.

Not a large-gripe though. A mini-gripe at best.

What was the most
CREATIVE thing about this issue?

STORY: On a certain level the way in which the Guardians
goaded Guy to resign his commission was very creative indeed. They set him up.
Made sure he would lose. And then guided his hand to do 'the honorable thing'
when he was at this lowest ebb.

Boy, what b*stards the Guardians are?

ART: As ever with Fernando's work, I did like the way he
laid out his panels, and made things appear much grander and dynamic than they
really are. Take that scene where the Third Army kills those Green Lanterns for
instance. Fernando really gets into the nitty-gritty of this battle, choosing
to 'get in close' with who is killed and how they are killed.

If you had to CAST
TWO CHARACTERS in this comic book, who would they be and why?

KILOWOG: Still keeping in line with this comedically themed
casting call month, I'd have to choose The Amazing Johnathan to play this big
lumbering brute of an alien. Well, they both look like they can teach tricks.

SALAAK: If you squint, take a lot of drugs, and then look at
Harry Shearer through a warped mirror, wouldn't you say that he'd pass off as
this surly looking academic alien? No? Oh! Must be just me then.

If this issue were a MOVIE,
an OBJECT, or a piece of MUSIC, what would that be and why?

Conceptually this story is about a man who is tricked into
quitting his own job, right? So why not compare it to something like the Hendy
Winkler and Michael
Keaton film, 'Night Shift' -- just without the hookers.

Well? Kind of?

FINAL thoughts...

Dear People Who Like the Colour Green.

Now I have reserved this space in my b*llshit so I can tell
you my feelings towards this book. Well, you guys have a really great title on
your hands. And you have the ability to intrigue us, month in, month out, by
presenting a very green tinged merry-go-round of action and adventure.

However, if I may, there is one thing I'd like to pull you
up on. At times, your plot-lines do come across 'too forced' within the scheme
of things -- not really seeming defined by character, but more by editorial
edict.

Listen, I do not want to sound like a right ass here. But we
all know that writers have to intertwine both story and personality into a
tale, without it feeling too contrived as a conceit.

Don't fret, though. This is hardly noticeable to the
untrained eye. Although quite a few of us Green Lantern fans might think
otherwise.

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